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Looks bad inside and out. Not Clean. Food was inconsistent and fine on average but I could believe that some items are delicious. The service was not great either(although you don't come to these types of divey places for great service). Full review below including Health Inspections Report at bottom. From my experience and the Health Inspections Retrieved I'd say unless like me you have an Iron stomach and your curiosity needs to be sated i'd avoid this place.
Decision:
My wife and I took our son here on the Free Comic Book day in downtown Mesa having tried all the other restaurants in the area.
Appearance:
We're not one to judge a book by its cover so the re-purposed gas station restaurant didn't deter us. The cleanliness on the inside is exactly what you would expect from looking at the outside of it, which is not good.
Ordering:
Still undeterred we had an order of a taco-enchilada(cheese) combination plate and two carnitas street tacos. While ordering the man(seemingly the owner) asked if we'd like any drinks to which I replied that water was fine, (we had planned to get drinks coffee or other at another Mesa Establishment) He said that they had bottled water and I said no thank you to the bottled water and that was the end of it. By that I mean they didn't give us any water at all. He didn't outright refuse us water but did not default to it when we declined the upsell.
Waiting:
We were the only customers in the restaurant and still not giving up hope we sat down to wait for our food to come. There was however the son of the owner probably 4 years old just looking absentmindedly out the window of one of the booths, it was obvious that he spends good portions of his days in that restaurant. The place was not clean by any means, the salsa cart had two relatively watery looking but surprisingly good tasting salsas(green and red) but there is no chance that the salsa was at the proper temperature it was quite close to room temperature. after sitting down a regular customer was greeted as he entered the front door. He place two to-go orders on separate checks for him and a coworker to eat during a break. I can not imagine that our order was significantly more difficult than this regulars' but he got both orders all packed up and he was out the door a couple minutes before we got our food. There was also a drive thru order that came and went in our wait time. Now that said the wait time for our food was long considering the order but not so long that it was absolutely ridiculous my qualm was just that or food being ordered first was not prioritized as such. While packing the drive thru orders food we saw the same guy that took our order walk from handling money straight to putting his hand on the meat cone to shave off pieces of meat for their order. When we received the food a younger girl, quite obviously the daughter of the man, brought the food to us and then said, "Is this your guys' food?". Not a huge deal considering, and I would describe it just as a teenager not being present(attentively) while working at the family restaurant.
Food:
The carnitas tacos were just okay, the pico on the top was room temp and tasted of nothing but water. My food the combination plate had hot beans and rice which were good and the enchilada was conspicuously a much cooler temperature then the beans and rice. That being said the taco and sauce that came on the enchilada had good flavor. From the good tastes on my plate I could imagine that some other items were great, ie the other reviews about the breakfast burritos.
Overall Review:
Appearance and Cleanliness was bad, Service was not good(though you don't come to these types of divey places for great service), and the food was fine on average. With how numerous the "...-itos" mexican restaurants are all over Arizona I wouldn't spend my money here again.
Health Inspection Report:
After coming home and before writing a review I wanted to see if my assumptions about food temperature had any validity and so I looked up the Health Inspections report, Permit ID: FD-42528 if anyone wants to look it up. Formatting is (m/yy Purpose-Grade #ofViolations) any notes are in parenthesis: 3-15 Routine Inspection-B 1, 6-15 Routine Inspection-"Not Participating" 2, 6-15(next day) Re-Inspection 0, 10-15 Routine Inspection-B 0, 11-15 Re-Inspection 0, 12-15 Routine Inspection-D 2, 12-15 Risk Control Plan 0, 12-15 Re-Inspection 0, 3-16 Routine Inspection-"Not Participating" 3, 4-16 (1st)Re-Inspection 0, 4-16 (2nd)Re-Inspection 0, 4-16 (3rd)Re-Inspection 0.
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